Mendeley Feedback on UserVoice

temporary citations and RTF scan [updated]

2012-02-22T10:09:57-08:00

It would be nice to be able to insert temporary text citations (i.e. something along the lines of {Smith et al., J Neurosci, 2009}) which will on demand be scanned by Mendeley and turned into proper citation with bibliography attached. This is especially useful for keeping references intact across applications; i.e. using applications like Devon Think to store notes, Google Docs for collaborative writing, etc.

Alex said:

I definitely agree with other comments. Unformated citation option {tartampio, 2009 #unique Key} would be the last feature to make Mendeley as competitive as other reference softwares. It would encourage different collaborators using different word processing softwares and diffrent os systems to use Mendeley as common referencing. I think most of researcher are awaiting this feature to definitely banish the thomson/Reuters monopole.

Save open tabs, as in Firefox. [updated]

2012-02-22T09:51:56-08:00

When I worked on a paper and I have to leave and shut down my computer, all my previously opened files ar closed by closing Mendeley. Could you implement a "save open Tabs" as in Firefox?

Rick said:

I'd add that it would be awesome to be able to drag and reorder tabs like you can with chrome or firefox. But it's definitely annoying now to have to find all the papers I had open every time I move or restart mendeley.

How about supporting ebook formats (eg epub, mobi) as well as pdf? [updated]

2012-02-22T09:48:31-08:00

pokho said:

Support for chm and djvu would also be nice, but epub/mobi should have higher priority.

valid bibtex export [updated]

2012-02-22T08:49:09-08:00

The the bibtex files exported by mendeley start with: "Automatically generated by Mendeley 0.9.6.1 Any changes to this file will be lost if it is regenerated by Mendeley." I think this should be wrapped like this: @comment{ Automatically generated by Mendeley 0.9.6.1 Any changes to this file will be lost if it is regenerated by Mendeley. } Some programs (Lyx) don't accept it otherwise.

f.konschelle said:

I have the same trouble than pieter.cogghe.
I think the trouble is just that BibTeX does not support UTF-8 encoding characters, and the problem is not solved with Lyx (see http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips).

I just review some of my BibTeX references as generated by Mendeley. Up to now, I found that some characters are badly interpreted by BibTex, like
-- (stick together, producing a long dash, of course the double hyphen is valid), " , or ' (apostrophe and quotation marks)
They usually appear in the title of the reference. If you then call for this reference, it will not be parsed by Bibtex.

So, Mendeley may try to implement this trouble: to generate Latin1 valid .bib file...

Hope to have been of help.

Office 2010 64 bit plugin [updated]

2012-02-22T07:59:45-08:00

Since Mendeley desktop is not working for the 64 bit version of Microsofts Office 2010 TP, it would be great to build a version of Mendeley Desktop compatible with the 64 bit version of Office 64 bit as soon as possible. The beta phase of Office 2010 is start very soon (November) and that would be a great opportunity to test Mendeley Desktop for this Office version as well.

Mário Ferreira said:

robert.knight almost two weeks have passed since your post. Still no 64bits version?

I'm almost gone to endnote

Problems with OpenOffice plug-in for Mac [updated]

2012-02-22T07:48:20-08:00

Several of us have commented about these problems on another thread, but we haven't gotten an official response. I then realized that that thread had been closed several weeks ago, so I'm opening a new one here. I was very excited to see that the latest version of Mendeley has an OpenOffice plug-in for Mac. I downloaded it, and unfortunately immediately encountered several problems. After I started Mendeley up, I did a full sync (or at least I think I did, anyway), then in Mendeley Desktop I used the pulldown menu to try to "Install OpenOffice Plugin". Alas, I got an error message, as follows: "The OpenOffice unopkg utility gave the following output: ERROR: python-loader:exceptions.SystemError: dynamic module not initialized properly, traceback follows Couldn't find uno._uno_extract_printable_stacktrace unopkg failed." Huh. Then I opened OpenOffice, thinking maybe it needed to be open as well, and tried again to install the plugin in Mendeley Desktop. This time, I got this error message: "The OpenOffice unopkg utility gave the following output: 2009-07-06 16:03:26.402 soffice[460] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1103 (0x44f), port = 0x3f03, name = 'org.openoffice.script.ServiceProvider' See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes. 2009-07-06 16:03:26.407 soffice[460] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (org.openoffice.script.ServiceProvider)". Do you have any idea what I may have done wrong? I know several other people have had similar problems. I'm on a Mac PPC G5, running OS 10.4.11, if that helps. Thanks!

Dave said:

Open office is a piece of s**t. I've wasted hours of my life in frustration, dealing with the booby traps some programmer put in. If I could find that son of a b**ch programmer I would break his f**king neck. I hate this program. I am going to have to throw this old mac in the trash because of programs like this.

Office 2010 64 bit plugin [updated]

2012-02-22T05:12:57-08:00

Anonymous said:

Hi there, is the plug in still not available for 2012 64 bit?

iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) [updated]

2012-02-22T02:01:20-08:00

Can you integrate with Apple's office-like suite?

Marco said:

please,please,please

Show unique identifier as number next to every entry [updated]

2012-02-21T21:53:02-08:00

I have a printout copy of many of my PDF files. Each printout is labeled with a unique number on the top right corner and stored in a ordered way. Whenever I look for a paper: 1. I open my digital library organizer 2. I search the paper and find what is the number associated to it 3. Go to my paper library and pick paper number N. I wish this could be done with Mendeley (sounds pretty easy to implement)

IanM said:

Hi Robert,

So it seems a chunk of us have hard copies of papers that are not available electronically. I know that;s a hard one to get your head around young people but such old fogies do exist! :)

These documents fill our filing cabinets, just as the newer PDF cousins fill up our hard drives. The paper versions can have a hand-written number on their dog-eared corners. This is a number the was assigned through the use of something like Reference Manager form Thomson Research. This number, an essential link between our electronic database and our filing cabinet, does not see to be imported by Mendeley wither in the IRS or xml export form Reference Manager.

Any chance this is a feature that is coming soon or a workaround that exists now? It seems we'd all love to move to Mendeley but this one factor is holding us up.

Mendeley desktop fetch directly from arXiv [updated]

2012-02-21T20:22:31-08:00

It would be great if Mendeley desktop can directly fetch entries from websites like arXiv, spires, etc., by, say an arXiv ID.

Eaton said:

This would be a very handy and important feature! Tools like JabRef can do this.

Plugin for Libre Office [updated]

2012-02-21T18:11:06-08:00

Create a plugin for the new Libre Office of the Document Foundation.

Anonymous said:

i forgot to say that i'm using ubuntu 11.10 and libreOffice 3

Plugin for Libre Office [updated]

2012-02-21T18:10:03-08:00

Create a plugin for the new Libre Office of the Document Foundation.

Anonymous said:

hi, i need help queeckly. After some upgrade i realize that i'm running out of tools bar

Organize files by collection [updated]

2012-02-21T15:04:28-08:00

File Organizer in 0.9.0 only allows subfolders and renamed file names to contain Year, Journal, Title and Author data. I certainly want my collections to be in different subfolders as well!

gjs said:

Separate folders for collections is a difficult issue because it means duplicate files as Carl Anderson has identified in this post. In general, using folders is a redundant form of PDF management because of the power of search tools with indexing, combined with features like Mendeley's 'collections' or playlists in iTunes.

However, syncing one Mendeley library may become problematic as time goes on and we each accumulate thousands of PDFs if that same folder is synced to mobile devices with limited storage (like a Kindle Fire). It is also a problem when using other programs with the same PDF library (such as Sciplore/Docear) which scans all PDFs in a folder, and this can overload the capacity of such software.

It would therefore be great if one instance of Mendeley could run with two or more libraries, All documents/PDFs could be used and managed as per normal, with the exception that you cannot move them between libraries. Any researcher can make some fundamental splits in their research field - and set up a few separate libraries to reduce the burden of collecting thousands of PDFs in just one of them. That way, mobile devices with limited storage and 3rd party applications can sync or work with one library at a time, depending on current priorities of the individual.

make the web importer chrome compatible. [updated]

2012-02-21T14:17:25-08:00

Anonymous said:

Please ASAP! Thank you...

Journal abbreviations [updated]

2012-02-21T10:59:16-08:00

Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation. It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

Anonymous said:

Thought Mendeley was useful until I had to try and fix the INCORRECT FORMATTING. I'm deleting Mendeley until they fix this, because it is completely useless to me. Home bug workarounds are not a hobby of mine.

Make sure folders and subfolders is kept on iPhone / iPad platform

2012-02-21T10:30:39-08:00

Sylvain Brunet suggested:
Once i have created folders for my articles, and subfolders according to subject, I loose all trace of such classification on my mobile app. Any visual clue, through symbols or indentation would be greatly usefull.

LaTeX integration in Mendeley Desktop [updated]

2012-02-21T08:49:29-08:00

Let users specify a schema/key for BibTeX file export; export entire Mendeley library as BibTeX files; automatically keep exported BibTeX files in sync with Mendeley Desktop library contents

Anonymous said:

Could you tell me how to generate the .bib file automatically from the mendeley desktop for Windows version which I could use in Latex file to generate my bibliography. I have seen following link which explains it for Mac version of mendeley. http://blog.mendeley.com/tipstricks/howto-use-mendeley-to-create-citations-using-latex-and-bibtex/#more-42890
I found that similar features are missing in the windows version. Can you help me please!

Keep 'My Library' tab visible at all times [updated]

2012-02-21T07:15:32-08:00

Have the 'My Library tab permanently affixed and visible to the left side of the tab bar. This means that one does not need to scroll back along the tab bar to access the library

Anonymous said:

Yes, this would help a lot! Especially with the two tiny buttons at the opposite end of the tab-bar, it's quite inconvenient to get back to the library tab, and that's something I keep doing over and over again.

Veterinary journal citation styles

2012-02-21T05:22:31-08:00

Becky suggested:
There are a lot of citation styles in the veterinary journals which are not included - these would be very helpful!

to make an easier format to create your own styles (an implemented styles editor in Mendeley itself) [updated]

2012-02-21T05:00:06-08:00

Anonymous said:

i mean citation styles

to make an easier format to create your own styles (an implemented styles editor in Mendeley itself)

2012-02-21T04:59:26-08:00

include page numbers in the citation [updated]

2012-02-21T04:49:49-08:00

am i missing something? why doesn't the citation display the page numbers?

David Jarman said:

I've been working with 'Sente' recently for my referencing - it works nicely with Scrivener on the Mac and will also store PDFs, etc. Yes, it will allow page numbers in a straightforward way.

I may not turn back to Mendeley, it's a shame the page numbers development hasn't happened in the year or so I've been following this thread and others like it.

include page numbers in the citation [updated]

2012-02-21T04:43:08-08:00

am i missing something? why doesn't the citation display the page numbers?

Pnina said:

Please update on this cruicial issue!

Allow users to costumize document types.

2012-02-21T03:58:55-08:00

Lindim suggested:
Allow users to costumize document types. Or at least include the following new types: Poster, Presentation, Review.

Bug with references and 'track changes' in MS Word [updated]

2012-02-21T01:18:05-08:00

If I have 'track changes' on in MS Word, I find that the entire reference section in the word doc are marked up as a change whenever I re-open the document. using mendeley 0.9.6.1 and Word 2007.

Jannie said:

how can i recover my password to acept track changes

add the function of zooming the paper to the width of the page

2012-02-21T01:15:30-08:00

li shanshan suggested:
could you please add the function of zooming the paper to the width of the page and the page width will always fit the width of the page no mater whether the sider window is hiden or not? if i use the zoom function for the reading paper in the mendeley, the size of the paper will not fit the width of window of mendely any more.

Allow “Notes” to stay up in a PDF tab once I click away.

2012-02-21T01:08:38-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
I notice that the “notes” tab will NOT stay up in an open PDF tab once I click away (e.g. to another PDF or the main screen). This is very annoying when I have multiple PDFs open and want to cycle thru and compare notes. Once I select "notes" I will like that to stay open until I either select "details" to close the PDF.

Background syncronizing and an option to sync on close [updated]

2012-02-21T01:01:15-08:00

I would like the ability to automatically sync my library when I attempt to close the Mendeley Desktop app. Xmarks for Firefox (a plugin that syncs bookmarks) has the option to sync every x minutes and then, if there are un-sync'd bookmarks at the time you attempt to close Firefox, it pops up a little dialog box notifying you that there are un-sync'd bookmarks and asking you if you'd like to sync them now. Even if you don't want background syncing, I'd like the option to automatically sync my database on close.

Anonymous said:

Please add option to auto-sync at close! Great idea for multiple computers!! :)

Default to notes section [updated]

2012-02-21T00:56:29-08:00

I would like to be able to set the default for the Desktop sidebar to be the Notes tab instead of Details. Once I have the details correct, I don't really need to see them again.

Anonymous said:

Agree. The key here is the OPTION to change the default setting.

Plus a bug to fix: I notice that once I click on the "notes" tab in the main screen, it will stay on that tab as a cycle thru my references (good, I like this). However, the "notes" tab will NOT stay up in an open PDF tab once I click away. This is very annoying when I have multiple PDFs open and want to cycle thru and compare notes.

My Mendeley desktop is not opening

2012-02-20T23:22:48-08:00

Fortunus Kapinga suggested:
I have downloaded and installed the Mendeley desktop. But, when I want to open it for reference citation is not opening. What should I do?

android [updated]

2012-02-20T14:48:48-08:00

An android app to access Mendely from android phones would be welcome (when all bugs in the desktop app are fixed ;-) Best Claude

Tzevat Tefik said:

android application is must!

Software most of the time will not get full doi from the Journal of virology [updated]

2012-02-20T13:52:35-08:00

Alexandre Mercier said:

The DOI capture stops after the first page number. It does not get the dash and what comes afterward. Please fix this!

Add the capability to import patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office website. [updated]

2012-02-20T13:11:14-08:00

The patent office publishes complete patents on its website, as html. Importing bibliographic, abstract and claim information would be very useful.

Charles Rohde said:

Google Patent Search as well.

CHROMOTHERAPY

2012-02-20T11:35:51-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
ARTICLE : CHROMOTHERAPY AND THE IMPLICATIONS IN THE METABOLISM OF THE NORMAL AND NEOPLASIC CELL "Green chlorophyll and red hemoglobin, the main difference between the two pigments of life, is proof of a common origin of the two kingdoms".HEILMEYER. In my opinion, at the basis of malign transformation is a disturbance of energetical metabolism, which reached a level that cell can not correct (after having succeeded before, many times), disturbance that affects the whole body in different degrees and requires corection from outside starting from the ideea that the final biological oxidizing takes place through photochemical process with releasing and receieving energy. The final biological oxidation is achieved through a process of oxidation-reduction, while a photochemical process, based on the principle of complementary colors, if we accept as coenzymes involved, containing a metal atom gives them a certain color, depending on the state of oxidation or reduction (red ferment of Warburg with copper, all copper cerloplasmin blue, green chlorophyll magnesium, red iron hemoglobin,etc. I SUGGEST TO YOU AN EXPERIMENT: CULTURE OF NEOPLASTIC TISSUE IN A GREEN CONTAINER OR IN A COLOURLESS CONTAINER, IRRADIATED WITH MONOCHROMATIC GREEN LIGHT, IN AN ALKALINE MEDIUM, WILL IN REGRESSION OF THE TISSUE CULTURE; CULTURE OF NEOPLASTIC TISSUE IN A RED CONTAINER, OR SINGLE IRRADIATED WITH RED LIGHT, IN AN ACID MEDIUM, WILL LEAD TO EXAGERATED AND ANARCHICAL MULTIPLICATION. If satisfied, the final biological oxidation is achieved by a photochemical mechanism (besides the oxidation-reduction), that energy is released based on complementary colors, means that we can control the final biological oxidation mechanism, irreversibly disrupted in cancer, by chromotherapie and correction of acid-base imbalance that underlies this disorder.We reached this conclusions studying the final biological oxidation, for understanding the biochemical mechanism of aerobic glycolysis in cancer. We found that cancer cell, energy metabolism is almost exclusively on hydrogen by oxidative dehydrogenation, due to excessive acidosis , coenzymes which makes carbon oxidation, as dormant (these coenzymes have become inactive). If we accept the nature of these coenzymes chloride (see Warburg ferment red), could be rectivate, by correcting acidosis (because that became leucoderivat), and by chromoterapie, on the basis of complementary colors. According to the principle electronegativity metals, under certain conditions the acid-base imbalance (acidosis), iron will replace copper in combination , cytocromoxidase became inactive (it contains two copper atoms) leading to changing oxidation-reduction potential, BUT THE COLOR FROM BLUE-GREEN, TO REED, to block the final biological oxidation and the appearance of aerobic glycolysis. In conclusion, malignant transformation occurs by energy metabolism imbalance in power generation purposes in the predominantly (exclusively) of the hydrogen atom of carbon oxidation is impossible. Thus at the cellular level will produce a multiplication (growth) exaggerated (exclusive), energy from hydrogen favoring growth, multiplication, at the expense of differentiation (maturation). Differentiation is achieved by energy obtained by oxidation of the carbon atom can not take, leading to carcinogenesis . The energy metabolism of the cell, an energy source is carbohydrate degradation, which is done by OXIDATIVE DEHYDROGENATION AND OXIDATIVE DECARBOXYLATION , to obtain energy and CO2 and H2O. In normal cells there is a balance between the two energy sources. If cancer cells, oxidation of the carbon atom is not possible, the cell being forced to summarize the only energy source available, of hydrogen. This disorder underlying malignant transformation of cells and affect the whole body, in various degrees, often managing to rebalance process, until at some point it becomes irreversible. The exclusive production of hydrogen energy will cause excessive multiplication, of immature cells, without functional differentiation. Exclusive carbon energy production will lead to hyperdifferentiation, hyperfunctional, multiplication is impossible. Normal cell is between two extremes, between some limits depending on the adjustment factors of homeostasis. Energy from energy metabolism is vital for cell (body). If the energy comes predominantly (or exclusively) by oxidation of the hydrogen atom, green energy, will occur at the structural level (biochemical), acidification of the cellular structures that will turn red, so WE HAVE MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL STRUCTURES "RED", WITH "GREEN" ENERGY. This background predisposes to accelerated growth, without differentiation, reaching up uncontrolled, anarchical. ENERGY STRUCTURE OF THE CELL BODY WOULD BE INN. If necessary energy cell derived mainly by oxidation of the carbon atom, red energy,cell structures will be colored green, will be alkaline(basic), so WE HAVE MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL STRUCTURES "GREEN", WITH "RED" ENERGY, on the same principle of complementarity. This context will lead hyperdifferentiation, hyperfunctional ,maturation, and grouth stops. ENERGY STRUCTURE OF THE CELL BODY WOULD BE YANG. Sincerely yours , Dr. Viorel Bungau

Improve BibTeX export with special characters [updated]

2012-02-20T11:18:45-08:00

BibTeX export has issues with multiple special characters when exported, I believe an easy fix would be to add surround all escaped or modified stuff with {}. Example, the swedish letter "å" is exported to "\aa " which contains an extra space, just using "{\aa}" would fix the issue.

Felix Neumann said:

I'd second Julians comment. An author called Härtig is exported as H\"{a}rtig, which makes problems with the "alpha" citation style: Instead of citing the paper as [Här00], LaTeX prints something like [H\"00], i.e. it puts the dots above the "zero" sign!

{\"a} would fix that.

webos version [updated]

2012-02-20T10:05:26-08:00

Peter said:

I am also an HP touchpad user who am eager to have Mendeley on my tablet. Please port it!

Add a search option "Filter by Authors" window. Possibly other filters. [updated]

2012-02-20T08:22:14-08:00

This would allow you to narrow the filter by entering the first 2 or 3 letters of the author of interest. It would be much cleaner than the author search from the main search window, while still having both methods available for those with personal preferences of how they search by author. Some kind of advanced option would be great here.

Mark said:

Sorry, I meant Add a search option WITHIN the "Filter by Authors" window.

Add a search option "Filter by Authors" window. Possibly other filters.

2012-02-20T08:21:03-08:00

Mark suggested:
This would allow you to narrow the filter by entering the first 2 or 3 letters of the author of interest. It would be much cleaner than the author search from the main search window, while still having both methods available for those with personal preferences of how they search by author. Some kind of advanced option would be great here.

Add Contextual Search function with internet browser.

2012-02-20T08:14:19-08:00

Mohd Nooh Omar suggested:
A function that when we highlight words on a journal and run a Google search on those terms by right clicking our mouse and selecting the "search web for" menu item. This contextual search a great tool when we need to find about the terms in the internet. Similiar with firefox's ConQuery tool.

mendeley for ipad [updated]

2012-02-20T08:09:26-08:00

Please create a version of Mendeley for the iPad.

Guido Cagemen said:

I agree: I would pay for a Mendeley iPad version which shows subsfolder and allow for annotation.

And while you are on it, please include the function to browse in PdF with an index (especially for long articles/books).

For the rest: I'm really satisfied!

Specify schema for automatic BibTex key generation [updated]

2012-02-20T07:50:29-08:00

I would find very useful if it was possible to specify a schema according to which Mendeley should generate BibTex keys. For example [author][1]:[journal]:[year]:[title][5] (the first author and the first five words of the title). Right now I generate my keys with JabRef, it would be nice to do it directly in Mendeley.

Anonymous said:

Another yes to the feature requested! This is substantial for working with mendeley. Combining the usage of jabref and mendeley is no option, so ... add this feature, please :)

Implement spellcheck in the Notes field

2012-02-20T07:43:45-08:00

Alan Rice suggested:
Even just highlight words not in the dictionary, not looking for anything too fancy.

add blackberry playbook support. A Flex-based app means it would be xplatform with android too. [updated]

2012-02-20T06:52:09-08:00

Anonymous said:

Be very helpful for one who travels as I do.

Allow text to be selected on mac. main reason for this is to allow triple tap for dictionary lookup.

2012-02-20T06:14:49-08:00

Context-sensitivity: simultaneous use of in-text and footnote citations with different styles

2012-02-20T05:21:26-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
Some citation styles use in-text citations AND footnote citations simultaneously. Both contexts need to apply different styles, e.g.: "In text in text in text (Author Year). In text in text[Footnote 1]" [Footnote 1: "Footnote text Author (Year): Title. Container. Pages]. For this, the Word processor plugin needs to be context-sensitive to the place a citation is pasted, either in-text or a footnote.

subscript and superscript [updated]

2012-02-20T05:15:40-08:00

It is fundamental to allow sub- and superscript for titeling of references, othervise Mendeley is not useful for any engineering applications

Anonymous said:

Yes, please! And it should be exported correctly both to Word and BibTeX. So "Al<sub>2</sub>OAl<sub>3</sub>" would prouce "Al$_2$O$_3$ in the BibTeX file.

Office 2010 64 bit plugin [updated]

2012-02-20T02:51:14-08:00

anonymouses said:

Is it possible to get access to the preview version of mendeley?

An integration between the CMS Plone and Mendeley

2012-02-20T00:29:02-08:00

making it possible to highlight text with different colors (not only yellow) [updated]

2012-02-20T00:06:23-08:00

Praful P. Pai said:

A bug I just came across when using the highlighter.
If I copy the text that I have highlighted, pasting it causes the last line of the highlighted text to be re-highlighted.

Mendeley desktop fetch directly from arXiv

2012-02-19T22:40:43-08:00

Eaton suggested:
It would be great if Mendeley desktop can directly fetch entries from websites like arXiv, spires, etc., by, say an arXiv ID.